Welcome to the Music Room at Ozboy’s Bar and Grill!
Here is where you can swap YouTube clips at will, without worrying about the current LibertyGibbert thread page growing too long. I’ll clear this page out every week or so to keep the length manageable. Stay and chat as long as you like; we’re open 24/7/365. And the Jukebox is free!
To embed a YouTube clip, click on the juke box above, navigate to the clip you want, copy the URL (web address in your browser), and paste in the “Leave a Reply” box below in the following format:
(youtube=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaOVeKvrEX4”)
Use square brackets [] not parentheses () as I did above (note in particular, no spaces). It will look like this:
Do pop back into the front bar every now and then to refresh your drink, and let us know that you’re here; you never know who else is about!
Cheers,
Ozboy.
Something vintage (1971) and authentic – listen for the all-star chorus which includes Rita Coolidge, John Sebastian, David Crosby and Graham Nash:
I’m still in a 70′s kinda mood:
Is it a heresy to say I prefer this version over the original Leadbelly?
The greatest pop song of all-time:
Gerry never reached a fraction of his full potential. Fame didn’t agree with him, and he became a recluse, succumbed to drugs and alcohol and passed away early last year.
Fame wasn’t good for Elvis, either.
Best pop song ever, eh? How about this one?
Well in terms of Greatest Ever, a lot of polls have been conducted about this of course. Around a decade ago, someone got the bright idea of getting a “delphic average”; they contacted all the surviving artists who appeared in about fifty of these “Top 100″ polls, and asked them for their own Top 100. Guess which song came out on top? Hard to argue with the result; like Baker Street, very classical in its composition, and with wonderful harmonies as well:
Bah ! Can’t be better than this !!
Hope you’re referring to my Beach Boys clip kiddo, ‘cos your comment came without a link – Oz
My apologies
Ahh. For over thirty years I’ve been trying to think of a redeeming feature of that song…
When it first came out I was in Year 10 and studying French, and was required to spend a miserable weekend (in an era before the internet and Alta Vista Babel Fish) translating something into English that didn’t even make any sense in French
At least, unlike your other older brother, you weren’t into the Sex Pistols – Oz
Oz: As it happens, my newly arrived Claremont Review Of Books has an article on the Beach Boys and has this to say:
‘Brian was also experimenting technologically with tricks well ahead of their time and that contemporary audio equipment could scarcely handle. He borrowed from the moives the technique of cutting and splicing tape, soemthing hardly ever done in music before “Good Vibrations” and usually only to cover up mistakes. Brian elevated “modular recording” to an art form, alloweing the music to turn on a dime in ways impossible to achieve if the songs had to be played straight through in one take. Sgt. Pepper — with its array of jump cuts, sound effects and multi-track overlays that could only be accomplished in a studio — has gone down in rock history as the first album to blast away the boundaries of traditional stage pop in ways that made it absolutely unperformable in a live act. Smile, which was written and recorded earlier, was even more sonically inventive. Had it been released on schedule, undoubtedly Wilson’s masterpiece would have earned that honor’. — Michael Anton
How did that E get in there? ‘allowing’
OK, what is the ANTI-greatest pop song? I’m open to persuasion, but I’d like to nominate this. I haven’t thought it through, I just want to nominate it:
It could have been ‘True’ but ‘Gold’ is even more deserving of the, er, honour.
Another “greatest ever” contender. This was originally the “B” side to Strawberry Fields Forever, which always features in the music critics’ polls, but I prefer this one. They were the first two songs written for the Sgt Peppers album, but dropped in favour of releasing them as a single (!) I’m posting the version from their silly 1960s cartoon series (song begins at 1:48), ‘cos I grew up with that and it’s permanently cemented into my brain.
Amanda, let me have a think about the “anti” category. Do you mean the worst?
While I’m on the subject of the Beatles – something of a rarity, as it isn’t on any of their primary albums. This was the “B” side to Ticket to Ride in 1965; very minimalist arrangement and showcases their close harmony work. One of my favourites, anyway.